“In connection with our religious aims and beliefs, we must promote economic security. The preaching of economic security among us is by no means as widespread and intensive as the circumstances demand. No other one thing is more needed among us at this time than greater economic power…..We shall be secure in nothing until we have economic power. A beggar people cannot develop the highest in them, nor can they attain to a genuine enjoyment of the spiritualities of life.”

-Noble Drew Ali

The Moorish American economy could easily be viewed as a sort of “Third World” economy if compared to “First World” economic structures. However, an economic shift in power would be inevitable if Moorish Entrepreneurs were to base their business developments on the utilization of high level venture capital. This means that large sums of money would be made available to create and expand Moorish businesses as venture capital represents, in this case, a means by which Moorish owned businesses could underwrite the creation of new technologies, services, development and also the marketing of new services and products. The push for an economic expansion requires that companies press the envelop of innovativeness with cutting edge technologies, progressive ideas and also by creating economies of scale which essentially means the per unit cost of production decreases as the production level increases.

To become an “Economic Power,” Moorish businessmen and industry pioneers must work to mature the economy while being able to adjust to the ever changing dynamics of the North American economic system. Some secure ways to increase economic and financial success for Entrepreneurial Moorish Americans are to become involved in joint ventures, alliances, consolidations, takeovers and mergers. Participating in the previously mentioned strategies would reduce the risk of failure and the arduous task of beginning a business from scratch. Creating economic power through intelligent mergers, and the like, would also increase the access to motivated, innovative and productive staff, assets, contacts, and organizational solidarity. Increasing economic power also increases access to new industries that were formerly closed to Moorish Americans. Through the use of intelligent, progressive and direct business strategy, Moors could increase personal, as well as national, wealth, power and influence in national and international economies within the family of nations.

If operated from a Nation based standpoint, economic power could be shifted in less than a decade due to the fact that conscious, and unconscious, Moorish Americans contribute next to a billion dollars to the United States’ economy each year. Collective economics, Moorish owned lending institutions, and cohesive and proactive Moorish communities would solidify the Moorish as an industrious and independent Nation based entity. With unified political movement and an “ant-like” work ethic and dedication, natural disasters, community displacement and the need for the basic elements for survival would be reduced as Moorish affairs would be supported and aided by and with Moorish finances. Just as it is important to study self to achieve mastery of the two selves, it is also important to support and aid self for continued existence in this plane of being.

-Zothyrius Ali El